Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-02-12

Congressional.
WASHINGTON, February 11th.- In the
Senate Stanford introduced bill to provide
for mortars and heavy guns for the arm
ament for the forts and coast defenses and
vessels of the United States.
Manderson from the Committee on Mill
tary Affairs, reported the bill granting the
Salt Lake and Fort Douglas Railway Com
pany the right of way across the Fort
Douglas military reservation in Utah.
The Senate bill appropriating 100000
for the improvement and enlargement of
Courthouse and Postotfice at Omaha, was
passed.
The Senate then resumed consideration
of Eads' Tehuantepec bill, and Hoar con-
cluded his argument in support of it. The
bill was then laid aside temporarily.
Dolph introduced a bill to authorize
Dalles City, Or, 10 construct bridge across
the Columbia river.
The Senate bill to authorize the Billings,
Clarke's Fork and Cooke City Railway
Company to construct and operate rail
way through the Crow Indian Reservation,
was passed.
The Senate bill granting the Utah Mid
land Railroad Company the right of way
through the Uncompahgre and Uintah re-
servations, in Utah, was passed.
The Senate then proceeded TO the con-
sideration of the Postoffice appropriation
bill
Plumb, a member of the Committee on
Appropriations, having charge of the bill,
made an explanatory statement. With the
exception of single item, he said, the bill,
SO far as the appropriation of money went,
was just as it came from the House, and
that il was precisely according to the esti-
mates of the Department.
The House bill was amended by insert
ing an item providing that no boxes for the
collection of mail matter by carriers shall
be placed inside of any building, except
public building, or a building which is
freely open to the public during business
hours or a railroad station.
The amendment as to the transportation
of the South American mails was not taken
up for consideration, as it was expected to
lead to a debate. and the bill was laid aside
till tomorrow.
The Senate bill for negotiation with the
Shoshone and Bannock tribes of Indians,
for the relinquishing of the title to so much
of the lands of the Fort Hall reservation as
is required for the uses and purposes of the
Utah and Northern Railway Company
and Oregon Short Line Company was
passed.
The House bill to divide the Western
Judicial District of Arkansas into two di-
visions, was passed, with amendments.
The Senate bill granting to the State of
California five per cent. of the net proceeds
of the sales of lands in that State was
passed-yeas, Al; nays, 5. The nays being
George Maxey, Riddleberger, Salisbury
and Vance.
The House bill empowering the Fort
Worth and Denver City Railway Company
to construct and operate railway through
Indian Territory was passed.
A motion to reconsider the vote passing
it was entered by Plat, so that he might
have time to examine it, and the Senate
| adjourned till tomorrow.
THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, February 11th-At $40
| the Presidents Private Secretary was an
| nounced He presented message from
| the President, transmitting without his ap
| proval the dependent pension bill. The
reading of the message was followed with
| an attention more strict than is generally
accorded to such documents.
At its conclusion, Matson moved that
| the bill and accompanying message be re-
| ferred to the Committee on Invalid Pen
sions, promising that they would be re-
ported back within the coming week. The
motion was agreed to-137 to q.
Postal Changes.
WASHINGTON, February 11th.-A new
Postoffice has been established at Duzura,
San Diego county, and Henry Haganbach
has been commissioned Postmaster.
Railway Postoffice changes are ordered
as follows Tehama and Sacramento postal
clerks to extend their rum to begin at Red
Bluff, increase in distance, eleven miles,
making the whole distance 130 miles. The
service between Red Bluff and Tehama
will be in addition to the Delta and Sacra-
mento Railway Postoflice. The line is to
be known as the Red Bluff and Sacram ento
Railway Postoffice.
For through registered pouches the fol-
lowing order has been issued: Change
rate of transit between Kansas City and
San Francisco to go forward via Kansas
City and Council Bluffs, Omaha and Ogden
aud Ogden and San Francisco Railway
Postoffice, returning via same route. No
change east of Kansas City. Through con-
nection between Albuquerque and Mojave
and San Francisco and Los Angeles Rail
way Postoffice is broken at Mojave.
Senator Stanford's Industrial i'll.
WASHINGTON, February 11th.-Senator
Stanford will ask the Senate tomorrow to
set apart next Tuesday for the consider
alton of his cooperative industrial bill, in
order that he may submit some remarks
thereon He does not expect the bill to
| pass this session, but desires the subject
discussed.
Plants for Manufacturing Guns.
WAsHINGToN, February 11th.-Senator
| Stanford introduced bill in the Senate to-
| day providing for the construction of
plants, not to exceed 81 10000 in each
| place, for the building of guus, mortars
| and other armament for coast defenses, at
| the following points San Francisco, Bir-
| a LII
| ton.
| Cholera Scare-New York Uneasy.
NEW YORK, February 11th.-The an
| nouncement via Panama, that the cholera
has passed the Cordilleras, and is now in
| the interior of Chile, as if making for the
| Pacific coast, is the occasion of some dis
cussion at sanitary headquarters, as there
is frequent steamship communication be-
| tween the Chilean and Peruvian ports and
| the isthmus. It's thought more than prob
| able that il will find its way to the isthmus
| before long. The most experienced men
| connected with the Board of Health and
| the quarantine authorities are of the opin-
| ion that it is the duty of the acting Mayor
| to issue a proclamation, urging upon the
| people of every class to cooperate with the
municipal authorities in improving the
sanitary condition of the city before the
| VI luC hCdtllOiY ~ do W Dc
prepared for emergency. The Board will
] also send urgent petitions to Albany in
| favor of the immediate passage of the bill
| now pending in the Assembly, to place the
| entire tenement-houses system under a
| commission clothed with such powers as
will enable,them, as occasion may require,
| to summarily suppress nuisance and deal
with contagious diseases without recourse
! to existing red tape methods.
! A Disastrous Wind-storm.
| ALLIANCE (0hio), February 11th.-A ter
| rible wind-storm, amounting almost to a
cyclone, struck the town of Louisville,
Ohio, twelve miles west of this place, about
| O'Clock this morning. Seven dwelling
houses were razed to the ground, large
wooden mill partly destroyed, the Catholic
| church and Seminary badly damaged and
| the large brick building occupied by James
| Thurin was blown into the street. Scarcely
| chimney in the town was left standing
| Several persons were more or less injured.
none fatally, SO far as learned. The loss to
property will exceed 100000. Serious
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